Posted on 01/01/2005 11:00:11 AM PST by OPS4
Hollywood picks Che over Christ Posted: January 1, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Les Kinsolving © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is nationally headquartered in Manhattan, but has an influence nationwide.
This is due primarily to this organization's president, a marvelously articulate attorney named William Donohue.
I often describe him as "the man who is absolutely incapable of writing a dull press release."
As the latest example of this notable art, Bill Donohue notes:
"Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ' was one of 49 films deemed eligible for a foreign-language Golden Globe. But it was not among the nominees voted on today by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
"Mel Gibson releases the most significant blockbuster movie of the year, but it's not good enough to make the cut for a Golden Globe. That's because his film promotes Christianity, and the Hollywood crowd will have none of it. The only movies they like to make about Christianity these days are ones that demean it.
"But one movie that did make the cut in the foreign-language category was 'The Motorcycle Diaries,' a film that shamelessly lies about the notorious Cuban communist Che Guevara. According to the Christian Science Monitor, the movie 'paints Guevara as an amiable guy who doesn't appear to have an aggressive bone in his body.' A.O. Scott of the New York Times concurs, saying the film views Guevara 'as a quasi-holy figure' who turns away 'from the corruptions of the world toward a higher purpose.' This may explain why Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News says that director Walter Salles 'comes close at times to posing Guevara as a Christ figure.'
"In other words, because Mel gives us a faithful rendition of Christ's Passion, he is shunned by the Hollywood elite for doing so. But a movie that whitewashes a ruthless tyrant – making him into a Christ-like figure – gets the nod. The message that is being sent is unmistakable: There is no room for Jesus in Hollywood's inn, but there is plenty of room for communist thugs portrayed in a Christ-like manner."
I'd say "unbelievable" only it's not unbelieveable at all.
The Passion was one of the most powerful movies I have ever seen.
Total shunning of "The Passion" by the Hollywood crowd and their followers.
Patheitc---and typical.
"Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular,"
-William Donohue
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41992
The Golden Globes are a publicity event - designed to make money - it is not a real "Hollywood" organization. The people who fund it pay to be on it to get their talent shown in the media. The red carpet walkdown has become an essential advertising industry.
What is picked for the Golden Globe is directly linked to how to make money through endorsements.
Lastly, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights is itself a scam organization which makes money by stirring up outrage on manufactured issues such as this and then making a fortune in donations.
That's the case with lots of organizations i.e. Rainbow/Push, ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, but have never paid attention to this group too much.
What I find interesting is the point of the snub of a Christian film by the Golden Globe org.
I guess you see the politics on the Christian side as the scam.
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Ops4 God Bless America!
It's offically Oscar season. (If you didn't know, the season starts at Christmas (the deadline for movies to be released in order to be considered for that year's Academy Awards) and runs through the winter to the end of March, when the Academy Awards take place. This year's show is on March 23. In future years, the show is going to be moved back into February to shorten the campaign season.) You will undoubtedly see movie advertisements during this period which tout the number of Golden Globe nominations that a picture receives. The Globes have turned into the motion picture industry's unofficial Oscar preview night. But you should pay no attention to Golden Globe nominations when choosing how to spend your 9 bucks. The Globes are a complete fraud.
The Globes are one of many awards shows that hand out trophies for the best movies, actors, directors, and writers each year. The Globes are given out by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which basically consists of the foreign equivalent of the sychophantic reporters who work for publications such as Us Magazine and the E! network and ask completely inoffensive questions of celebrities. Nobody should or would care what they think about movies, except that they have cynically entered into a symbiotic relationship with the entertainment industry to serve each others' purposes. Indeed, the track record of the Globes has not been good, with the horrible "Evita" getting nominations and Pia Zadora once winning an award.
The symbiosis functions as follows: the Foreign Press, of course, wants attention for their awards show, which translates into having big stars and studios granting them access and giving them gifts and junkets, as well as a fat contract with NBC. The industry, on the other hand, wants something that will help them sustain Oscar hype for three months and that will put butts in the seats. The Globes serve that purpose perfectly. The awards are calendared to occur just about at the same time as Oscar nominations, while Globe nominations are announced way back in December. Of course, it is likely that the nominators in the HFPA haven't seen most of the movies up for consideration when they are required to turn in their nominations (especially since many contending films haven't even been released yet at that point), but who cares? It's publicity, baby! (The fact that nominators haven't seen the films probably was a factor in Evita getting those nominations a few years back.) And that publicity comes at exactly the right time-- all the serious movies that nobody has heard about but which might win Oscars come out in December, and what better way to give the movie instant legitimacy than to put "5 Golden Globe Nominations including Best Picture" in the ad? Voila, instant cache!
And as for those nominations-- it will help you to read the fine print. You see, the Golden Globes have twice as many nominations in each category as the Oscars do. They do this by splitting everything up between "dramas" and "comedies", whereas the Oscar just has one category for "Best Picture", "Best Actor", etc. The studios, in their advertisements, go to ridiculous lengths to conceal this. In their print ads, the words "GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINEE: BEST ACTOR" might be written in bold 32 point type, with the word "(Drama)" written sideways in 10 point type. In radio ads, they don't even mention the qualification: I just heard an ad that said "and now it's been nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Picture of the Year". Of course, there is no such category-- there is only "Best Picture (Drama)" and "Best Picture (Comedy)".
This, of course, serves the industry's purposes quite well, because it doubles the number of films that qualify as "Oscar contenders" and implies that there are a lot more good films out there than there usually are. This is very important because there are many moviegoers who make it a point to see the Oscar contenders each winter. Thanks to the Globes, the industry may sell these people twice as many tickets.
The bottom line is that you should pay no attention to the Globes. If you are interested in paying attention to the Oscar race, wait until the Oscar nominations actually come out. Then be my guest and see the films. But ignore the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual shindig. It's just an elaborate scheme to separate you from your pocketbook.
Point of ref. if it is toungue incheek, just give us a LOL at the end then I can unerstand the point.
Ops4 God BLess America!
Christ knows His own...the ones His Father has given into His hand....
Satan,Marx & Lennin know theirs as well......
Yes they do, and thier opinions get too much press allready.
They have Pravda and The New York Times, just to name a couple.
Ops4 God BLess America!
Trolling.
Ops4 God Bless America!
I agree, and Sinclair broadcasting company looks like it may be a friendly host as well.
Thanks for the kind reply.
Added info: a lot of the festivals/meetings at UCLA brings out the Che posters.
There's a reason that the LAPD calls UCLA "The University of Communists, Liberals and @$$holes".
Oh yeah, and they have a film school that did a Leni Riefensthal (sp?)
festival. The organizers went to great lengths to say they weren't doing this to
"rehabilitate" Leni even though she was good buddies with Adolph.
Mel Gibbson would have had to bribe his way onto the show and he propbaly has too much class to soil himself giving out bribe money and promising to appear on television to get this televised event publicity - and make them have more money. Lastly, the two movies in question are not in the same catagories. This fake award show has so many classifications that you can have dozens of nominations for the award - more movies nominated means more money for the producers.
Thus this article is a distortion because the Che movie did not bump off the Christ movie at all.
They are a self hating lot!
Donohue forgot to mention the scores of homosexuals in Hollywierd who hate anything and everyone who differ from their view of morality.
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